Yasir Aziz

Biographic Data

ID4773957
NAMEYasir Aziz
GIVEN NAMESYasir
FAMILY NAMEAziz
SIGNATUREAZIZ Y
AFFILIATIONSCity University of Science and Information Technology
ORCID0000-0003-4411-2517
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Zakat and Sustainable Development Goals

    Open AccessMuhammad Bilal Zafar, Yasir AzizARTICLEFood Ethics2026

    This study examines whether Zakat, a mandatory Islamic social finance mechanism, effectively mitigates household food insecurity, thereby contributing to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 (Zero Hunger) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Utilizing household-level data from the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey, integrated with district-level administrative Zakat disbursement records, we assess the impact of…

  • The impact of social media influencers on investor judgments and financial investment decisions

    Open AccessIhsan Ali, Tingli Liu et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2026

    The role of social media influencers (SMIs) in shaping investment decisions has attracted increasing attention on the digital edge, but remains underexplored among individual investors in emerging markets. To fill the gap, this study examines the impact of SMIs on investment decisions in the Pakistan stock market, employing the Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) as the theoretical framework. It further investigates the mediating roles of conven…

  • Zakat and Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ). Assessing the Ripple Effect of Obligatory‐Alms Spending on Education. Empirical Evidence From Pakistan

    Open AccessYasir Aziz, Fadillah Mansor et al.ARTICLEAsian Social Work and Policy Review2025

    This study employed a novel methodological perspective to evaluate the impact of Zakat on one of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), i.e., education. The study has employed macrolevel data on Zakat spending collected from the Zakat department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and microlevel data from a renowned national survey, the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM). Based on the data set used for empirical analys…

  • The nexus between zakat and poverty reduction, is the effective utilization of zakat necessary for achieving SDGs

    Open AccessYasir Aziz, Fadillah Mansor et al.ARTICLEAsian Social Work and Policy Review2020Cited by: 1References: 2

    This study develops and validates a comprehensive mechanism for evaluating the effect of zakat (obligatory alms‐giving) on reducing poverty and attaining some of the prominent Sustainable Development Goals. The study unconventionally analyzes the effect of macrolevel data on microlevel data on district level of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Microlevel data are utilized from a renowned national survey, Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurem…

  • Islamic practices and small and medium enterprises performance

    Open AccessYasir Aziz, Rizwan Ullah et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Affairs2020References: 3

    We examined the role of Islamic practices: Islamic work ethics, Islamic social finance, and religiosity in financial and environmental performances with corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a mediator. We collected data from 241 Pakistani enterprises through survey and applied structural equation modeling in AMOS. The results showed that Islamic work ethics and Islamic social finance have insignificant effects on financial performance but a s…